There were two [name_m]German[/name_m] princess named [name_f]Sophie[/name_f] “Sossy” and [name_f]Margarethe[/name_f] “Mossy”, just made me think of that
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That’s really cool! Did she have her name as [name_f]Serenity[/name_f] (Wren) so you knew it was a nickname?
Wow - Marinina is really pretty
[name_m]Georges[/name_m] isn’t one I’d think of for [name_f]Georgia[/name_f] but that’s actually a really cool story!
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two that come to mind are [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] “Liv” and [name_f]Penelope[/name_f] “Pepper”!
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It was a birth announcement, with the parents saying they’d call their newborn daughter [name_f]Serenity[/name_f] “Wren”. Which begs the question, why didn’t they just go with [name_u]Wren[/name_u]? But still, I found it pretty cool.
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His brother’s name was William I believe, and Claude didn’t like being called Claude, so he sort of borrowed his brother’s name and used a nickname from it 
possibly! I knew an Elizabeth ‘Billie’ too!
I think it went Elizabeth → Bettie → Nettie!
Not sure about Zoe for Lisa.
another elizabeth, but i went to school with an elizabeth “fizz” !! she went by fizz full time. i also know a katherine “kit” (always kit) and an alexander “xandy”, which are pretty intuitive but definitely not among the most common nicknames,
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Off the top of my head,
I grew up with a [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] ‘Cole’ and when I realized his full name was [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] I thought it was such a cool and creative nickname!
I also know an [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] “Eliz” pronounced EE-liz which I always thought was cool, and a [name_f]Naomi[/name_f] ‘Nicki’.
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One that comes to mind is [name_f]Helen[/name_f] “Ellie”
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Some cool ones I have heard in real life/ read online
Nicholas - Nyx / Klaus
Arthur - Thor
Theodore - Thor
Theodosia - Dove, Doe
Gloria - Glow
Victoria - Plum / Vixen / Vita / Victus
Odette / Dorothea - Dot / Dottie
Genevieve - Niamh / Genesis / Vivid
Gwendolyn - Dolly/ Wendy
William - Whim / Wilky
Wilhelmina - Whimsy
Annette - Nettie (my nn 
)
Felicity - Fig
Scarlett - Lettuce
Daphne - Daffodil
Peregrine - Pip/ Pippin
Josephine - Saphir / Posey
Pricilla - Peaches, Pixie
Richard - Duke
Lawrence - Lark
Sylvia - Sylph, Sylphide, Silver
James - Gem
Imogene - Midge
Ferelith - Fairy, Fayelight
Winona - Oona
Clementine - Lemon
Inger - Gingerbread/ Ink/ Tinkerbel (it came from Inki-Tinki and morphed into Tinkerbel + she looks like a little fairy
Isabelle - Isolde
Penelope - Pepper / Pen 
/ Plum / Peony 
, Loup 
Lorelei - Lola / Leia ( for Star Wars fans)
Sabina - Bean
Bonnie - Bunny, Bonniebel, Bonbon, Bunnybel
Ottilie - Otter
Ophelia - Opal / Faye
Hazel- Hazelnut
Veronica - Verona / Verity/ Ronja / Aronia/ Aroniaberry
Florence - Fleur, Florabel
Martha/ Margot - Mars/ Mazipan
Amber - September/ November/ December/ Berry
Evelina - Ballerina
Margarethe - Madlike/ Madicken/ Daisy/ Grete/ Marta/ Mars
River Isabelle - nn River-Belle 
And I have always loved Natalia-Natasha, Elizabeth - Lilibet, Lisbeth, Catherine/ Katherine -Kitty 
[name_f]Essie[/name_f] for [name_f]Grace[/name_f]!
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another [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] one: nn [name_u]Eli[/name_u]! (pronounced like the masc name)
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[name_f]My[/name_f] little sister is [name_f]Bethany[/name_f] ‘Bemmy’ (BEH-mee)
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I know a [name_m]Jonathan[/name_m] who goes by [name_f]Joy[/name_f].
I also met an [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] who goes by [name_f]Elona[/name_f].
[name_f]My[/name_f] husband’s cousin [name_m]Mordechai[/name_m] goes by [name_m]Motti[/name_m], which seems perfectly normal to his family but seems a little unintuitive to me. Like in almost every Jewish family there are several men named [name_m]Mordechai[/name_m], and some go by - in my opinion - wild nicknames like [name_m]Motka[/name_m], Morkel and and [name_m]Mottel[/name_m]. Don’t get me wrong, I love the whole (Jewish) nickname culture in their family.
Some more examples:
[name_m]Naftali[/name_m] - [name_u]Tully[/name_u]
[name_m]Yehuda[/name_m] - Yutka
[name_m]Shmuel[/name_m] - Mulka
[name_m]Gershom[/name_m] - Godel
[name_f]Tamar[/name_f] - Temke
[name_u]Yehudit[/name_u] - [name_f]Itta[/name_f]
[name_f]Sarah[/name_f] - Sirki
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[name_f]My[/name_f] niece is [name_f]Elisabeth[/name_f] nn [name_u]Issy[/name_u] (pronounced Izzy). She’s virtually never called [name_f]Elisabeth[/name_f].
[name_f]My[/name_f] sister chose to call her [name_u]Issy[/name_u] as she didn’t like any of the other nicknames
I met a girl (I think her name was [name_f]Isabelle[/name_f]? Something like it anyway) who went only by [name_m]Bob[/name_m], my age!
When my sister was littler, I called her [name_f]Viv[/name_f] and Vivvy a lot. Her name is [name_f]Violet[/name_f]!
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I’ve also seen an [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] who goes by that but she spelt it EB!
And I’ve seen an [name_f]Autumn[/name_f] whose nickname is [name_u]Min[/name_u] and maybe it’s just me but I wouldn’t have thought of that but I do love it tho!!
[name_f]My[/name_f] sister is [name_u]Maria[/name_u] but we call her [name_f]Maya[/name_f].
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I actually really love that
[name_u]Gus[/name_u] for [name_m]Gregory[/name_m]
[name_u]Jamie[/name_u] for [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u]
[name_u]Max[/name_u] for [name_u]Madison[/name_u]
[name_u]Kim[/name_u] for [name_f]Kathryn[/name_f]
[name_m]Tuck[/name_m] for [name_f]Tuesday[/name_f]
[name_u]Alba[/name_u] for [name_f]Alice[/name_f]
[name_u]Otter[/name_u] for [name_m]Otto[/name_m]
[name_u]Fox[/name_u] for [name_m]Felix[/name_m]
[name_m]Luke[/name_m] for [name_m]Alucard[/name_m]
[name_u]Scout[/name_u] for [name_f]Scarlet[/name_f]
[name_f]Nina[/name_f] for [name_f]Antonia[/name_f]
[name_u]Ramsey[/name_u] for [name_m]Aramis[/name_m]
[name_u]Leo[/name_u] for [name_u]Elliot[/name_u]
[name_f]Lola[/name_f] for [name_f]Paloma[/name_f]
[name_u]Mack[/name_u] for [name_m]Merrick[/name_m]
Dizzy for [name_f]Thisbe[/name_f]
[name_u]Penn[/name_u] for [name_u]Peregrine[/name_u]
[name_u]Finn[/name_u] for Serephin
[name_f]Neve[/name_f] for Annavieve
[name_m]Thor[/name_m] for [name_m]Theodore[/name_m]
[name_u]Sunny[/name_u] for [name_f]Susannah[/name_f]
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